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Printing and Reports
- Object Additions/Changes
- Improved graphical reporting (charts, graphs, graphics).
- Somehow let me draw vertical lines on a report that crosses bands and objects. Maybe use layers?
- A "Page Form" band in the report developer. This would permit the creation of "printed form" look to some reports (e.g. Inovices, Work Orders, Packing Slips, etc.) It works something like the "Big Iron" laser printers where forms can be designed and stored in the printer, then merged and printed with the data for the document. I worked for several months last year with a language called Clarion. While the language itself left much to be desired, that one feature provide a powerful print capability. The band was located below the Page Band and at run time, became an overlay to the actual print data. Significant print form design was available, including insertion of graphics (e.g. Logos, billheads, etc.), providing a powerful tool for high quality printed output.
- Columns. Define page layout as having columns, create objects in one, have those objects wrap from one column into the next as needed to fit all the data.
- Option of showing a page number field on alternating sides of the page without having to create calculated fields to do it yourself.
- ObjectPAL
- How about conditional pagebreaks?
- Put condition code on an object example: Print this box based on a field value.
- A before and after report event, that would allow ObjectPAL code for runtime changes. Most of this can be done from a controlling script, but often it would be nice to include it all in the report, in case someone runs the report interactively.
- Output Options
- Improved PrintToHTML
- Direct PrintToPDF
- In Paradox I can store pictures, binaries, ... [blobs]. The best possibility to send such data through e-mail is a XML-format. It would be very nice, if I could automaticaly convert a report to a XML-file - and send it via e-mail (together with signature and protected with S/MIME) - and all this with few code-lines in ObjectPAL.
- Ability to zip output files automatically
- Printing dialog
- Add a suppressPrintingDialog option to the report print options. This the message that the report is printing. It shows the file name, and sometime what a user thinks is one report, is actually several behind the scenes. I sometimes don't want them to see that dialog box.
- Specify which pages of a report to print example (1,3,7) even out of order (3,6,4).
Project Viewer
- Content Display
- Allow the PRIV alias to be shown at same time, or add tabs to show different aliases.
- Better control over the order dirs and aliases are listed in the directory drop list.
- It would be great if in the project viewer one had a greater selective display capability. For example to be able to show only all forms containing a certain table or a certain method or referencing a certain library, or all tables containing a certain field name or a certain field type, etc. etc. Wouldn't that save us all lots of time?
- Functionality
- Look at ProView! The project viewer can be so much more than it is...
- When looking at table in project viewer, have a view that shows lock status of each.
- A right click on a file in the project viewer shows the windows shell commands. I think it should show only Paradox shell commands. Copy, delete, etc can be a major headache. Watch a user chose COPY and PASTE on a table and get only the db file copied!
Page 1: Data Model Designer/Dialog and Design Mode Features
Page 2: Miscellaneous
Page 3: Object Additions/Improvements
Page 4: Object Explorer, ObjectPAL Editor and Debugging Tools
Page 5: ObjectPAL Language
Page 7: Tools/Experts/Interactive Features
Page 8: General (or Miscellaneous 2)
Page 9: Suite Integration
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